In an attempt to ease his financial burdens, he disposed of his London house, and in 1919 sold off seven parts of his estates in Sutherland, amounting to 115,000 acres. He stayed in the family tradition a supporter of the Whigs in government, and was named Lord Lieutenant (or viceroy) of Ireland, briefly, during the ministry of Lord Rockingham in 1782. The two lordships were joined together as a county by the Emperor in 1653. His successor completely rebuilt the house in the 1860s, and it then passed to the Ramsden family who later sold it in the 1950s. His son James, the 14th Earl of Glencairn, sold the estate to Henrietta, 'the rich Miss Scott', eldest daughter of General John Scott of Balcomie, Fife in 1786. Nottingham, NG7 2NR, telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 4565 In the next year, he lent his name to a Whig coalition led by Charles James Fox and Lord North as titular Prime Minister (actually First Lord of the Treasury) for 8 monthsthough significantly, it was during this year (1783) that his government signed the Treaty of Paris recognising the independence of the United States of America. The younger sons, Lord George and Lord Henry both became fairly influential members of the newly founded Conservative Party in the 1840s. He contested this, and in 1818 was allowed a limited degree of sovereignty in Kniphausen and Varel, mostly concerning internal administration and external trade. Due to his European family connections, he later served as an informal diplomat between Britain, Denmark and Russia and died at the court of St Petersburg in 1813. Portland was the son of Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland and his wife Elizabeth Noel, daughter of Wriothesley Baptist Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough. But it is no longer Bentinck property, having been sold to a local shipping family (Van Hoboken) in 1830. When he died in 1711, his estates went to his daughter Henrietta who married another politician, Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer (son of the more famous first minister of Queen Anne), though the name Holles and the title Newcastle went to his nephew, Thomas Pelham. Since 2010, Buccleuch Estates has sold or agreed to sell more than 41,000 acres of land in Scotland, leaving it with 186,500 acres. a quirk of fate, Henrietta's mother, Lady Mary Hay, was the eldest Hospital Song 14. In 1904, Claude and Cecilia succeeded as 14th Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and raised their large brood of children (10) at Glamis Castle in Angus, or at estates in County Durham (Gibside Hall) or Hertfordshire (the enormous country seat of St Pauls Walden Bury, between Luton and Stevenage). Her mother, Lady Frances Howard, had been governess of the princesses Mary and Anne, and Anne Villiers and her sisters (and a brother) accompanied Princess Mary to The Hague after her wedding to the Prince of Orange. It is now the home to the 13th Duke of Argyll, His Grace Torquhil Ian Campbell, and his young family. One of Scotland's largest landowners, the Duke of Buccleuch and his family, is to sell nearly 9,000 acres of their rolling Borders Estate for more than 19 million. <> Kings Meadow CampusLenton Lane Hans Bentinck came to England with My ancestors came from Germany to the American colonies in the 18th century and I am a proud Virginian. In Victorian times, the Duke of Portland dammed the river to make the lake - and prevent the railway being built through the centre of the gorge. Theres no danger of this family becoming extinct any time soon, always maintaining a foot in England and a foot in the Netherlands. Meanwhile there are also still Dutch barons too, in various branches of Schoonheten, Bevervoerde and Buckhorst. On his return, The Duke applied himself to the 'improvement' of his Scottish estates, applying some of Smith's teachings in partnership with his agent, William Reid - harnessing the energies of his tenantry in an enlightened and mutually-beneficial way. 2 0 obj This Dutch-German branch, using the title, Count of Aldenburg-Bentinck (recognised formally by the Queen of the Netherlands in 1924), became extinct in 1968, and the headship of this branch passed to a senior line who had renounced it in the 1870s and moved to England. In 1767, the 9th Earl married Mary Bowes, the heiress of a wealthy London businessman, and the family name became hyphenated. The future Queen Elizabeth II was born at the Strathmore home in Mayfair in April 1926. The Portland family took over the property in the 1730s, but by the late 19th century rarely lived there, and in 1945, the 7th Duke gave it to the nation. Episodes . He obtained from Parliament the right to build The estate passed to William's son, Charles A. Bentinck (1810-1891) and was sold by him in 1837 to Baron J.A.P. This double windfall of two generations of heiresses brought two major new properties from the Cavendish family, in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire: Bolsover Castle and Welbeck Abbey. He had no sons, but from a second marriage left three daughters: the eldest of these was Nina Cecilia, who seems to have preferred Cecilia, but Id love to know for certain. to Ayrshire. The familys prominence at court was maintained after his death by his second wife (Jane Temple), who was appointed governess of the daughters of the Prince of Wales (the future King George II), and by his son, the 1st Duke of Portland (below). Browse by Records Creators Cavendish-Bentinck family, Dukes of Portland This page summarises records created by this Family The summary includes a brief description of the collection (s) (usually. The 3rd Duke was married General Scott. In the Netherlands, they were now lords of Middachten, with its elegant palace and gardens on a bend in the River IJssel in the province of Gelderland (near Arnhem), and also of Amelongen and Ginckel, a bit to the west in the province of Utrecht. The Castle, fortified even before the Norman conquest, is located near Morpeth in Northumberland (north of the city of Newcastle). The Theobalds Estate on the Hertfordshire-Middlesex border was another acquisition of Hans William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland. Around 1690 the exiled James II created the title Earl of Portland for Edward Herbert, brother of the 1st Earl of Torrington. Kr;JEChjF]^-yPl -dQ$$c=1=2]*du The Bentinck family had originally been an ancient and She certainly has a colourful background in her grandmother and great-grandmother; and, via the Prince of Wales (King George IV) maybe even a drop of royal blood! William Bentinck, the 3rd Duke of Portland, changed his family's It was eventually leased to the Glasgow & The tunnels connected the main house to the kitchen gardens, stables and a large riding houseequipped with gas lighting! [1] The oldest six titles - created between 1337 and 1386 - were Duke of Cornwall (1337), Duke of Lancaster (1351), Duke of Clarence (1362), Duke of York (1385), Duke of Gloucester (1385), and Duke of Ireland (1386). The children of the Dukes of Portland, and those granted the rank of Duke's children, bore the title Lord/Lady before their Christian names.. Hans Willem Bentinck, cr 1689 Earl of Portland, Viscount Woodstock and Baron of Cirencester (20 Jul 1649-Bulstrode . His residence, Huis t Velde, was an old moated manor house rebuilt by the Bentincks, located east of Warnsveld in another region of Gelderland, Zutphen. He served with William in battle in Ireland and in the Low Countries, then acted as ambassador to France, 1698, representing the Kings interests in the all-important question of the Spanish Succession. Then there is Cessnock Castle, near Galston, Ayrshire, where the Duke and Duchess had not stayed for many years till 1906. HENRY BENTINCK, Earl of Portland till 6 July 1716, when he was created Marquess of Titchfield and DUKE OF PORTLAND. Shortly after this first wife (called Georgiana Seymour) died, Lord Charles eloped with his friend Sir William Abdys wife; they divorced; and Charles and Anne (herself an illegitimate daughter of the Marquess of Wellesley, the Duke of Wellingtons brother) married. d8T,@b3G~KwDtlzo3QuOMmSu=|*N1N*A Edward VI gave the crumbling ruins to George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury; his son, the 7th Earl, sold it in 1590 to his half-brother, Sir Charles Cavendish (son of the celebrated Bess of Hardwick). An agreement was made that the Kilmarnock Estate could only Whitewashed Stairwell 5. The Dukes of Portland and their families. Welcome to our collection of the 50 best castles and manor houses in Scotland. stream When the 4th Duke of Portland inherited the title in 1809, however, he quickly disposed of the estate. the firm that sponsored the duke's Scottish Seniors Open - was hit by the housing slowdown. He communicated via letter boxes all over the house, but really only occupied a small apartment, sparsely furnished, in one corner of one of the largest houses in Britain. Staff and tenants knew never to make eye contact if they happened to pass him. The Bentinck estates were, however, largely disposed of by sale in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It passed into the hands of the Seymour family, Dukes of Somerset. Although he never visited any of his Ayrshire estates after (4) He obtained an Act of Parliament to make Troon's Harbour commercial with wet . It was William who was responsible for the building of the large indoor riding school at Bolsover and who lavishly entertained King Charles I there. Welbeck is one of the great traditional landed estates, nestled within Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire. The members of this family bore the surname Bentinck, Cavendish-Bentinck or Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, as indicated. I am also a musician and an avid traveler. But by this point, Portland had been supplanted as the Kings favourite by another Dutchman, Arnold van Keppel, and he resigned his court offices in 1699, and he mostly retired to his country estate at Bulstrode Park, though he did continue to carry out duties in the next reign, that of Queen Anne. a tramroad or 'plateway' and was nine and a half miles long and ran I am a historian of monarchy and the high aristocracy of Europe. The twin free lordships of Kniphausen and Varel were ruled as an autonomous county within the Duchy of Oldenburg by the Bentincks for the rest of the 18th century. >C[(E|zVsA!V|> R*286q!7{W.%:$ O7/&*qmz9ivm9('P ?Q(D+4hU-Sw The Glorious Twelfth, which heralds the start of the country's grouse shooting season, has been cancelled at the late Duke's Abbeystead estate, as a mark of respect. The Portland Estate in Soho Fields In 1698 the first Earl of Portland was granted by the King the freehold of most of Soho Fields and of a smaller piece of ground in St. James's parish, in reversion from 1734. The junior line, lords of t Velde, got a step up as its founder, Hendrick, acted as Steward of the lands of the Duke of Guelders in the Veluwe. The Cavendish property that became the main seat of the dukes of Portland was Welbeck Abbey. Today the estate is in divided ownership, though part of it is a grade II listed landscape on English Heritage's Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest. Born in 1768, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck succeeded as 4th Duke of Portland in 1809, on the death of his father, sometime Prime Minister and Whig leader. (LogOut/ Schoonheten Castle has been, and remains, the main seat of the Bentincks in the Netherlands. Today it is a ruin, looked after by English Heritage. These include the estates of Dalkeith, Melrose, Eckford, Ettrick Forest and Kirkurd, Hassendean and Hawick, Teviotdalehead, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Westerkirk, Eskdalemuir, Liddesdale and Canonbie. Timothy Bentinck had already established himself as an actor, notably on the radio as one of the lead characters on The Archers. But it was the second son, Lord John, who succeeded as 5th Duke of Portland in 1854, who captures the imagination of the most eccentric of the great aristocratic eccentrics of this period. privacy policy. He carried the crown of his cousin Queen Elizabeth at her coronation in 1937. For a brief period there was also an alternative, Jacobite Portland title. Rhoon Castle was built on a sandbank in about 1200, then rebuilt in the 1420s. Like Titchfield Abbey it was also built by Premonstratensians, in about 1140and by the 16th century it was the head of this Order of monks. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. The Holles succession might have included the very grand Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire, purchased by John Holles in 1710, but it was sold by his son-in-law the 2nd Earl of Oxford in 1740 to pay off debts. South-Western Company. Hans Willem, Lord of Rhoons connections to England started earlier than the Anglo-Dutch Moment of 1688-89. In 1968 he became head of this branch of the family, and in 1990, at age 71, he succeeded his *very* distant cousins as 11th Earl of Portland, and his son Tim became Viscount Woodstock. He became a famous recluse, retreating to Welbeck Abbey where he spent years constructing the most elaborate tunnel systemthought to be about 15 miles in totalconnecting various parts of the house and the estate. In the 1670s, to get closer to the seats of power in the province of Holland, he acquired the lordships of Rhoon and Pendrecht. He owns 100,000 acres in Scotland but sold the 15 bedroom Lochmore Lodge in Sutherland, once used by Prince Charles and Diana, last year. The Harleys main residence was the more modern Brampton Bryan Hall (also in Herefordshire). for locomotive traffic with the first engine being constructed by William John Cavendish-Bentinck-Scott, 5th Duke of Portland (1800-1879) William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland (1857-1943) William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland (1893-1977) Ferdinand William Cavendish-Bentinck, 8th Duke of Portland (1888-1980) The 6th Duke did do something non-traditional, though he was in keeping with the changing times (and indeed the changing laws): in 1943, just before he died, he broke the entail on the Portland estates, since he could see that his grand-daughters would otherwise inherit nothing if the lands and titles stayed together and passed as usual to the next male heir (a distant cousin). an incredibly important nobleman who was Prime Minister in 1783 and Welbeck passed down through the Cavendishes into the Portland line of descent, and ultimately became the main seat of the Dukes of Portland. noble family from Holland. For the purposes of this post, I'll be leaving aside their 94,817 acres of Scottish landholdings - Andy Wightman has covered these at Who Owns Scotland - and . I teach history at Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester, England, and am the senior editor of The Court Historian, the journal of the Society for Court Studies. At the 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimers death, Brampton Bryan passed to a collateral branch of his family, but I think (and happy to be corrected) that the Wigmore estate came to the Bentincks. In 1601, they acquired the mostly ruined castle of Wigmore in that county, the former seat of the mighty medieval Mortimer lords who used this castle in their defence of the borders between England and Wales. To entangle the estates and castles of this vast and complicated succession, lets start at the end and work backwards. Much further to the north, Bothal Castle was part of the Ogle succession that had fallen to the Cavendishes by marriage in the 1590s. He was an original governor of the Foundling Hospital in London, founded in 1739, and was made a Knight of the Garter in 1741. 1682, at the Hague, died in Jamaica, 4 July 1726, and was buried 3 Nov. 1726 in the Duke of Ormonde's vault in Westminster Abbey. Visited by thousands every year, the castle was the stand-in for "Duneagle" in the . Part of the reason for selling the Titchfield estate was the acquisition in the 1730s of a much more extensive portfolio by the 2nd Duke of Portland. The modern estate of Langwell was formerly known as Berriedale, and was possessed by two families of Sutherlands .Those of the first family, descended from John Begg, son of Nicolas, Earl of Sutherland, were styled "Sutherlands of Berriedale", and the other family . The Duke of Westminster. The Duke of Westminster owns more of Britain than the Queen, through an estate that can trace its history back hundreds of years. 'Bulstrode Hall, Buckinghamshire', by Corbould, published 1787. Victor Frederick William Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland, CMG (18 June 1897 - 30 July 1990), known as Victor Cavendish-Bentinck until 1977 and Lord Victor Cavendish-Bentinck from 1977 to 1980, and informally as Bill Bentinck, was a British diplomat, businessman, and peer. Lady Margaret married William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland, and her estates were inherited by the 3rd Duke on her death in 1785. His diplomatic career had been cut short (apparently on the verge of being named ambassador to Brazil) because of a divorce in 1948, which in those days was still too shameful for society to handle. Included in this gallery are grand manor houses with a lot of history too. A Highland fling with the Dukes ofGordon, Lost Princes of France: The Courtenays, from Latin Emperors to Earls ofDevon. He obtained from Parliament the right to build. He criminalised the practice of sati (a widows self-immolation on her husbands funeral pyre) and female infanticide; passed stronger laws against organised crime; passed the English Education Act (replacing Persian as the language of high courts); and founded the Calcutta Medical College. Contents The 3rd Duke of Fife, who has died aged 85, inherited fortunes, titles and estates in Scotland from both sides of his . The illegitimate son of the last Count of Oldenburg was given two Frisian lordships, Kniphausen and Varel, both on the North Sea coast on an inlet in the mouth of Weser, on either side of the future port city of Wilhelmshaven (not founded until 1869). 157 - Nottinghamshire Archives This record (browse from here by hierarchy) Catalogue description Portland of Welbeck (4th Deposit): Deeds and Estate Papers This record is held by. After a legal case at The Hague in 1781, Charlotte Sophie was confirmed as Doorwerth's owner. van Brakell. QUEENSBERRY ESTATE RENEWABLE ENERGY. 1812. The King of Self Pity 7. N]t([rEKe0X_!kYPvw^({PoHE2ZF"G";$gF#j'dRF?2&3I!Dh4>q9Sopf5tZj"' k(,.rh{t_/ He was noted for Back from Malaya and farming the family 20,000-acre estate around Kinnaird Castle, Brechin, he inherited his mother's fortune and estates as soon as he turned 21. I wanted this story changed for two reasons: Firstly, the original narrative was over crammed with information which made it difficult for our . In 1846 he was created Viscount Brackley and Earl of Ellesmere. 'Welbeck, Nottinghamshire', by T. Malton, published 1788. In the late 19th century it took on its modern appearance, as its white plaster walls were re-covered (on three sides) with red brick. Her many friends and lovers included Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, Dora Carrington, DH Lawrence (who may have modelled his Lady Chatterley on her), Virginia Woolf, TS Eliot, and on and on. William Cavendish-Bentinck, the 6th Duke of Portland, had a more traditional aristocratic history: Master of the Horse under Conservative governments in the 1880s-90s, a Privy Councillor, and long-standing Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire (from 1898-1939). A rental document details the name of tenants and the amount which they were due to pay on an annual basis. Scullery Sue 12. The Duke of Buccleuch has been selling off parts of his vast estate in recent years The continued dominance of the private estates in rural Scotland can't be underestimated, and they often. After 1997 he was entitled to call himself 12th Earl of Portland, as well as Count Bentinck von Aldenburg and Count of Waldeck-Limpurg. <>/Metadata 98 0 R/ViewerPreferences 99 0 R>> For more than 500 years, Inveraray Castle has housed the chieftain of one of the world's best-known family clans, the Clan Campbell. William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland carried the family line forward, and became its most famous politician. In this short time, he managed to modernise the government administration of Bengal and abolish the monopoly of trade enjoyed the East India Company. Todays castle at Kniphausen is a re-purposed former stables and is in private hands. Made up of 133,100 acres across the UK, the Duke of. Connect with the University of Nottingham through social media and our blogs. On his death in 1711 the Clare estates and a portion of the Cavendish estates passed to his nephew, Thomas Pelham, created Duke of Newcastle in 1715, but the bulk of the Cavendish lands, together with the manor of Marylebone (Middlesex) and Wimpole (Cambridgeshire) passed to his daughter Henrietta, who married Edward Harley, later 2nd Earl of Oxford. It was said that when he went to London, his carriage was put directly on the train so he never had to see anyone, and he rarely left his residence, Harcourt House on Cavendish Square. g8Ji CJ3$oe8xb+U]M4$%$%r The Wellington Riding is an international competition venue and award-winning equestrian centre. The new Duke was named a Gentleman of the Bedchamber in 1717, and Governor of Jamaica in 1722, where he died in 1726. died, and Henrietta's husband became the 4th Duke of Marketed by Jack Smith Estate Agents, Hove . Lord Oxford sold Wimpole, and on his death in 1741 the Harley estates in Herefordshire (Brampton Bryan etc.) It sits within an area known as the Dukeries. He was Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex for nearly a half century, and married a Scottish heiress, Henrietta Scott (so added another name to his surname), and purchased Fullarton House in Ayrshire, 1805, as his Scottish residence, and invested in the nearby port of Troon. 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